Yes, I know there are Previous and Next buttons at the bottom of most pages in the PlayStation Store. Now, you don’t have to scroll through all the text to get to those buttons. You can use L1 to move back and R1 to move forward.
This was added during the recent downtime of the PlayStation Network. It was widely believed that the code for the PlayStation Store would need to be updated via firmware, however this update shows most of the code resides on the PlayStation Network servers.
Looks like we might be in for a few surprises with the PlayStation Store in the next couple days…
We have a lot of big plans coming soon for you here at Loot Ninja. To accomplish everything, we’re going to need to beef up our servers a bit. In the coming weeks, there’s going to a server upgrade which will enable us to bring you some cool new features. Stay tuned for more news on when this will take place.
What’s that you say? How will this affect me? Well, in short, it won’t. You just might not get all of our news stories right away on a Saturday when the DNS servers are updating. But trust it, it’s going to be well worth it 
March 24, 2007 – 10:42 am
Major Nelson did some research, and spoke with Kevin Finisterre, who discovered the hack. What he came up with is something I could have told you years ago: Xbox Support is majorly retarded. People didn’t hack into the system, and Bungie.net wasn’t subject to attack. What really happened is called Pre-Texting. Malicious users called into Xbox Support pretending to be other users to get their account information. They would call multiple times, getting a bit of information each time, until they could get both the Live ID email and the password.
From Major’s site:
Kevin gave me a call directly and once I realized what he was talking about (he sent me some painful-to-listen-to audio files) I confirmed that the team is fully aware of this issue. They are examining the policies, and have already begun re-training the support staff and partners to help make sure we reduce this type of social engineering attack.
There’s no other way to say it; this situation shouldn’t have happened. Our customers deserve better.
It’s good to see Microsoft admit there is a problem. Hopefully this pushes them to allow the removal of credit cards from the system. Hopefully that’s something that gets taken care of in the Xbox Live downtime coming up soon. And hopefully they get some people at Xbox Support who have any idea what they’re talking about.
Major Nelson lets us know that Xbox Live, Xbox.com, and the Xbox forums will be down for a scheduled maintenance period on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 from 0000 to 1400 PST (that’s 3am to 5pm EST for those keeping score). That’s a hefty time for everything to be down, don’t you think? Most of the scheduled maintenance times are 3 hours.
From Major’s article…
Xbox Live, Xbox.com and the Xbox forums will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on Tuesday March 27th (next week) from 0000 to 1400 PT. As a result of this maintenance, Xbox Live, Xbox.com and the Xbox forums will be unavailable during this time. I thought I’d give you enough time to plan next weeks gaming schedule. What to do while you can’t hop on Xbox Live? Xbox.com has you covered with this list. This is purely ‘back end’ work that we scheduled months ago. This is not a dashboard update…that will happen later this Spring.
I don’t buy this being so scheduled. In my opinion, this is due to the Xbox Live Hack we’ve been hearing about, that Microsoft claims never happened. I seem to recall Major saying the scheduled maintenance happens every so often, and this seems pretty quick after the downtime in late February. And for it being down for 14 hours, that seems pretty major to me. This is only speculation, but that’s my opinion.
February 28, 2007 – 10:07 pm
It’s been a wonderful day here at Loot Ninja. First, we had the assholes with the spamming comments that rocked the server for a bit, then we had a major internet backbone go down at the server farm which put us offline even more. WOOHOO. Thankfully that’s all done. Hopefully Quest doesn’t lose a major backbone again.
February 28, 2007 – 4:57 pm
We had some issues this morning with some assholes from Digg who decided to flood us with spam comments, but that’s all been taken care of and the site is back up and running. Sorry for the downtime.
February 19, 2007 – 10:23 pm
Xbox Live will be down starting at 2am PST (that’s 5am EST for all you math majors out there). It “should” only be down for 3 hours, but we all know how that goes. I find it odd that it’s going down the day Crackdown is coming out at retail, which is such a huge release because of the Halo 3 Beta (not to mention the fact that it’s a great game).
So if you wanted to play into the wee hours of the morning, you’re shit out of luck. Get some sleep and play some Crackdown tomorrow.
It’s worth it to note that there will be NO new features on the 360 Dashboard, Live, or xbox.com. This is just server maintenance, as confirmed by Major Nelson.
